Nominate a Changemaker Today!

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Published October 04, 2009 @ 01:01PM PT

Change.org has launched a new competition, Changemakers, "to identify the leading activists, elected officials, authors, bloggers, actors and thought leaders who have the greatest capacity to spark change on issues of importance."

Changemakers will be invited to write on one of the many social change issues we cover here at Change.org to mobilize the countless readers and activists we have here to take action. You can vote on those you'd like to see here at Change.org, and also nominate your own.

I voted for: Ben Jealous, Cleve Jones, Cory Booker, Gloria White Hammond, Jim Wallis, John Lewis, Majora Carter (above photo), Sister Helen Prejean, and Zainab Salbi.

I nominated Geoffrey Canada of Harlem Children's Zone, Cheri Honkala of the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign and the Kensington Welfare Rights Union, and Bertha Lewis of ACORN.

I also think I will nominate Angela Glover Blackwell of PolicyLink and James Perry of the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Center and a leading candidate for Mayor of New Orleans.

Vote Today and Nominate your Favorite Anti-Poverty Activists and Leaders!

Photo of Dr. Majora Carter, MacArthur Genius and Founder of Sustainable South Bronx, by mospeaks

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I would be as Brazen to nominate myself, Jan LightfootLane if it would give me a chance to start a topic. I was just refused to be a freelance writer for change. So, I asks Change.org's editors "What can I do better the next time". Even posting a new topic once a month would be great

I have given close to 3 decades to homelessness and poverty. But I mostly work in back of the senses.I give information to others on how to avoid, or to overcome displacement. I am in Whose who when I remember to return the form.

But I am also from poverty, for lack of a better word the media *censors* my claims that the system is broken. The courts says I am not harmed by having to take an extra 5 minutes to an 1/2 hour explaining the Appeal Process to the people who call me.

I say If the General Assistance worked like its suppose to the first time I would not have to explain an action which can take 7 days to be heard when that family is out in the cold that night. I would not be talking so long to people who qualified, and has law transposed or misinterpreted on them that I miss other calls.

This is why I am brazen to tell the UNTOLD Truth. I have never won any award or whatever. Secretly, deep down I would like to, although I know for every award given, there is 100+ other people deserves such. Gee that is no longer a secret anymore.

Maya Agelous, Oprah's has a better chance of receiving this award the I do. For she is better known,but If I were to get this award I would start to be known. Maya says in her writings, "the greatest agony is the untold story." That is my greatest pain in my heart is not being able to tell mainstream where the systems are broken-because I am a nobody of poverty. I ache for those people who call me only to be denied aid.

If I keep slugging away, perhaps in the next two years I can make a mark, by having a case heard where I spent my own money on a nine month pregnant mother of two, with the father. If the GA refuses to aid a mother overdue in her delivery- who else stands a chance?

I am just busy enough that I can write an article a month. Now Not when I have more on my plate is when I want to be writing for Change. I will write for free, just to get my voice heard.

Jan

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I voted For Cheri Honaka from PPEHRC of which my group Hospitality House Inc., is a proud member. Cheri is hidden with real people on page 11.

I will wait until closer to the date and spend the rest of my 10 votes, most likely on Cheri. Maybe Jewel, BUT CHERI HAS BEEN THERE. She has been homeless.

I went all the way through the list only to find CEO, Founder who get paid much more than Hospitality House Inc. operates a year. Think, in fact I "hope" most CEO.s of are paid over our $15.000 and way under-

Posted by jan Lightfootlane on 10/09/2009 @ 03:38PM PT
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Leigh is a PhD candidate in urban planning at MIT, and a consultant on U.S. Gulf Coast recovery. She sits on the Board of the Allston-Brighton Community Development Corporation in Boston, and has worked with non-profits, foundations and local governments on policies and programs aimed at reducing urban poverty and inequality.